Professor Susan Dischiave announced and described their new Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Data Science to the audience during the morning session. She and Data Science Program Manager, Erin Bartolo, continued to discuss the program with other attendees at the conference, who all were enthused about the program and the university support for the program.

This 15-credit Graduate level certificate has a focus on managing Big Data for today's roles requiring interdisciplinary skills. Specializations within the certificate include Data Analytics and Data Visualization. The certificate program has part-time and online options, and can also become part of the requirements for more complete Masters degrees from Syracuse University. Syracuse University is currently enrolling students for their Data Science CAS for the Summer 2012 term.

Additional coverage from the iSchool announce also includes more information about the program.

Syracuse University also has a very active partnering community with other universities worldwide. If faculty members from other schools would like to discuss a partnership with the Syracuse, please contact Sue Corieri (sbcorier@syr.edu), Assistant Dean for Special Academic Initiatives, for further information.

The IBM Information Management Skills team has been collaborating with the Syracuse University iSchool faculty regarding the strong Masters of Science in Information Management degree that is offered by the Syracuse iSchool. IBM is sharing their vision of the education needed for the IM Professionals who are required to manage the Information Infrastructure needs of large enterprises now and only more so in the future.